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Dina Matar

Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London
Dina Matar is professor of Political Communication and Arab media at SOAS. She teaches and researches on critical issues on global media and communication with a focus on the Global South. She is specifically interested in the intersection of communication and politics, political cultures, communication and conflict/.war, social movements and media; digital activism; strategic communication and gender and media in the Arab world.

She is co-author of the Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (Hurst, 2014) and author of "What it Means to Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (I.B. Tauris, 2010). She is co-editor of "Narrated Conflict in the Middle East (2013) and Gaza as Metaphor (2016). She is also founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (since 2008) and book series editor of "Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (2022) and the SOAS Palestine Studies Series, both published by Bloomsbury Academic, London. She is co-editor of the Media, War and Conflict journal.

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a senior visiting research fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre..

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Dinesh Sharma

Dinesh Sharma is an author, consultant, and social scientist with a doctorate in psychology and human development from Harvard University. He is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, SUNY Binghamton, where he teaches in Harpur College, Psychology and the Department of Human Development. His current teaching work is focused on Human Rights, Globalization, Leadership and the United Nations.

Sharma also teaches about global leadership and the UN at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

He is the author of "Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President"and "The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century." He is currently editing a book on Hillary Clinton’s global image, "The Global Hillary: Women's Political Development in Cultural Contexts," due out in June 2016.

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Diogenis Baboukardos

Associate professor in accounting, management control and economics, Audencia
My research interests lie in the broad field of corporate reporting with a particular focus on issues related to sustainability and climate change reporting. My research has been published in various academic journals (such as Journal of Accounting & Public Policy, British Accounting Review, Regional Studies and Accounting Forum) and it has been funded by professional bodies and regulators (such as the UK Financial Reporting Council, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland).

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Dion Enari

Lecturer in Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology
Dion Enari is a Lecturer at the School of Sport and Recreation, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. He also has a PhD from Bond University, Gold Coast with a Master of International Relations and Lefaoali’i (high talking Chief) title from Lepa, Samoa. His research interests include Sport Management, Sport Leadership, mental health, Pacific language, indigenous studies, and trans-nationalism.

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Dionysios Demetis

Senior Lecturer in Management Systems, University of Hull
Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Senior Lecturer in Management Systems at the Hull University Business School and a Visiting Professor at Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD on Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught classes on Information Systems Management, IS Security and Research Methods. While at the LSE, he contributed widely to a number of research deliverables for the European Union, but most importantly to the domain of Anti-Money Laundering for the Spotlight EU project, as well as the GATE EU Project targeting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. His research on the Risk-Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and the 3rd EU Directive has been featured in the IMOLIN select bibliography of the United Nations while his research on ‘Data Growth and the Consequences to Anti-Money Laundering’ has won the Emerald Highly Commended Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control. For his teaching at the London School of Economics, he was awarded the departmental Teaching Assistant award for Outstanding Contribution based on peer review and student feedback from the Information Systems Department in 2006. During his PhD, he secured three consecutive research scholarships from the LSE.

His book on AML entitled ‘Technology and Anti-Money Laundering’ and published by Edward Elgar is the first book to provide a coherent theoretical structure for Anti-Money Laundering research and practice, based on Systems Theory, and the first book to provide an Information Systems perspective on Anti-Money Laundering. With LSE Professor Ian Angell, he co-authored another book that applies second-order cybernetics to uncover deep-seated epistemological paradoxes in science. The book is entitled ‘Science’s First Mistake’, and it is published worldwide by Bloomsbury.

Dr Demetis has a background in Physics from the University of Crete, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics on the Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems. Prior to this academic post he was an Adjunct Professor for the California based Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL), where he lectured on the International Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering courses for the university’s online program for about three years. He has also been lecturing for TJSL on Qualitative Research Methodology for both MSc-level and PhD-level students, while advising a number of students in their research. He has given a large number of talks in conferences, and is a regular speaker at Cambridge University at the Annual Economic Crime Symposium.

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Dionysios Demetis

Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Lecturer in Management Systems at the Hull University Business School. He holds a PhD on Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught classes on Information Systems Management, IS Security and Research Methods. While at the LSE, he contributed widely to a number of research deliverables for the European Union, but most importantly to the domain of Anti-Money Laundering for the Spotlight EU project, as well as the GATE EU Project targeting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. His research on the Risk-Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and the 3rd EU Directive has been featured in the IMOLIN select bibliography of the United Nations while his research on ‘Data Growth and the Consequences to Anti-Money Laundering’ has won the Emerald Highly Commended Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control. For his teaching at the London School of Economics, he was awarded the departmental Teaching Assistant award for Outstanding Contribution based on peer review and student feedback from the Information Systems Department in 2006. During his PhD, he secured three consecutive research scholarships from the LSE.

His book on AML entitled ‘Technology and Anti-Money Laundering’ and published by Edward Elgar is the first book to provide a coherent theoretical structure for Anti-Money Laundering research and practice, based on Systems Theory, and the first book to provide an Information Systems perspective on Anti-Money Laundering. With LSE Professor Ian Angell, he co-authored another book that applies second-order cybernetics to uncover deep-seated epistemological paradoxes in science. The book is entitled ‘Science’s First Mistake’, and it is published worldwide by Bloomsbury.

Dr Demetis has a background in Physics from the University of Crete, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics on the Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems. Prior to this academic post he was an Adjunct Professor for the California based Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL), where he lectured on the International Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering courses for the university’s online program for about three years. He has also been lecturing for TJSL on Qualitative Research Methodology for both MSc-level and PhD-level students, while advising a number of students in their research. He has given a large number of talks in conferences, and is a regular speaker at Cambridge University at the Annual Economic Crime Symposium.

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Dipa Kamdar

Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
I have a Master of Pharmacy and am a registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council as well as a member of my professional body, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. As an academic pharmacist, I teach pharmacy undergraduates and have achieved my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and obtained Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now known as Advance HE). I am also the pharmacy course director and equality, diversity and inclusion lead for the pharmacy department. I supervise student-led research in the discipline of pharmacy practice.

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Dipuo Winnie Kgotleng

Director, University of Johannesburg
I hold a PhD in palaeo-archaeology from the University of the Witwatersrand. I have a passion for Plio-Pleistocene primates, palaeosciences policy and transformation.

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DIRIS Jean-Pierre

Coordinateur interministériel IRS ² et GOVSATCOM, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)
Head of telecommunication and navigation projects since 2017. Management of projects in governmental and civilian/commercial space telecommunications (system/satellite/payload development and R&D), and satellite navigation projects (45 staff). During 13 years, program manager for SYRACUSE 4 (military satcom system) with French Defense, for ATHENA FIDUS (dual satcom system) in cooperation with Italy, for AGORA (civilian French digital divide). During 7 years, system technical responsible in climate change micro satellite (PARASOL), in space telecommunications (technological satellite STENTOR), in navigation per satellite (GNSS- GALILEO). During 7 years, system engineer in science projects (cosmology and stratospheric ballooning).

Auditor of IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale) 52nd national session in 2015-
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Engineer from Sup’Aéro (INSAE, national institute of aeronautics and space) in 1988.

Space systems engineering graduation, delivered by Spacetech University of Delft in 1999.

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Dirk Gerritsen

Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets, Utrecht University
Dirk works as Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). His research is focused on the behavior of financial consumers, financial institutions and financial markets. Examples of recent research topics in the area of consumer behavior involve checkout decisions when confronted with Dynamic Currency Conversion checkout options and switching behavior of bank clients based in deposit rate differentials. An example of a recent project on the interplay of financial institutions and financial markets is a study to the medium-term effects of ESG rating revisions on stock prices.

In addition to his research, Dirk is program director of the MSc. in Banking and Finance at U.S.E. and teaches courses on Investment Management.

Outside academia, he is a member of the Euronext AEX Indices Steering Committee and of the editorial board of the VBA Journaal which is a quarterly journal published by the CFA Society VBA Netherlands.

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Dirk Roux

Specialist Scientist for SANParks, Adjunct Professor, Sustainability Research Unit, Nelson Mandela University

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Dirk Steinke

Adjunct Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
My research program focuses on various themes at the intersection of evolution, ecology, conservation biology and genomic science.

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Diti bhattacharya

Senior research fellow, Griffith University
Dr Diti Bhattacharya is an emerging leader within human geography with a focus on the study of leisure studies, migration, and sporting cultures. Diti is a Research Fellow in an ARC Discovery Project with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. Her research interests include fitness cultures, sporting geographies, migration, heritage and mobilities. She is currently investigating the ways in which sporting practices and fitness cultures can be used as a social conduit through which marginalised communities experience a sense of belonging and community in Southeast Queensland. Diti is recognised for her interdisciplinary research on women, physical cultures, migration and belonging. Her research has advanced novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks for addressing new challenges arising from the increased attention on migrant women, intersectionality, belonging and leisure activities. Trained as a human geographer Diti specialises post human critical feminist theories, non-representational theory, mobilities and affect and in her work. Her work aims to bring a fresh and intersectional lens on the development of critical postfeminist analysis in the fields of leisure studies, migration and mobilities, specifically within the Australian context.

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Divina Frau-Meigs

Professeur des sciences de l'information et de la communication, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
Divina Frau-Meigs est normalienne, agrégée et professeur à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Boursière Fulbright et Lavoisier, elle est diplômée de l’université de la Sorbonne, de l’université de Stanford (Palo Alto) et de l’Annenberg School for Communications (université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie). Sociologue des médias, elle est spécialiste des contenus et comportements à risque (violence, pornographie, information, paniques médiatiques, radicalisation…). Elle travaille aussi aux questions de réception et d’usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication (acculturation, éducation, réglementation, identité, diversité culturelle…). Elle détient la chaire UNESCO « savoir-devenir à l’ère du développement numérique durable : articuler usages et apprentissages pour maîtriser les cultures de l’information ». Elle a dirigé l'ANR TRANSLIT (convergence entre éducation aux médias, à l'information et à l'informatique). Elle a été un des porteurs du consortium européen ECO qui a pour but de créer des MOOCs à des fins d’usages pédagogiques des médias et du numérique. Elle a piloté également le projet Erasmus+ ECFOLI qui vise à la résolution de conflit par l'éducation aux médias et à l'information (Chypre, Maroc, Palestine, Portugal). Elle a présidé le Défi 8 de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche "Sociétés innovantes, intégrantes et adaptatives". Elle est à présent présidente de l'ONG Savoir*Devenir (www.savoirdevenir.net), qui porte des projets en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et à la citoyenneté numérique et s'adosse à la Chaire UNESCO "Savoir Devenir à l'ère du développement numérique durable". Savoir*Devenir propose des formations en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et littératie numérique pour les enseignants, les éducateurs, les bibliothécaires et les formateurs. Les projets internationaux remportés par S*D sont: Youcheck! (vérification de faits et littératie visuelle), YouVerify (MOOC et jeux sérieux pour lutter contre la désinformation), Play Your Role (jeux sérieux pour combattre le discours de haine), JAMIL (formation de formateurs et montage de centre EMI en Tunisie), Crossover (pour promouvoir l'algo-littératie). D'autres projets sont en cours: ENID-TEACH (MOOC pour former aux méthdologies numériques), ALGOWATCH (quizz et jeu pour former à l'algo- et IA-littératie), GENDER-ED (pour former aux représentations de genre) et AIDEMEDIA (pour créer un festival d'éducation aux médias et journalisme) A cela s'ajoutent des expertises pour le CoE, l'UE et l'UNESCO ainsi qu'un certain nombre de gouvernements et institutions dans le monde.

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Divya Gupta

Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Divya Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Binghamton University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the areas of natural resource governance, development, and justice. Her research focuses on multi-actor and multi-level governance, collective action, democratic decentralization, institutional analysis, and justice implications of sustainable development, climate change and conservation reforms.

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Divya Venkatesh

Research Fellow, University of Oxford
I am a biologist with an interest in infectious diseases from evolutionary and immunological perspectives.

I study influenza viruses, which naturally circulate in wild waterfowl, but which also spills over into several mammalian species, sometimes causing devastating outbreaks or pandemics. In my previous work, I studied the transmission dynamics and evolution of this virus in wild birds and livestock. Now, as a BBSRC Discovery Fellow, I am studying its evolution and pathogenicity in marine mammals. I focus specifically on two closely-related species of pinnipeds: grey and harbour seals – which happen to exhibit dramatically distinct outcomes due to viral infections.

The idea is to use the avian-seal interface as a kind of “natural experiment” to study how avian influenza adapts to mammals, and the mechanisms underpinning the variation in host susceptibility to disease. This research can help us anticipate and respond to wildlife disease outbreaks and potentially, future pandemics.

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Diya Uberoi

Academic Associate, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
Diya Uberoi, PhD, LLM, JD, MPhil, BA. is a human rights scholar and advocate, with significant experience working with international and national organizations in the field of health and human rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and public health, with a focus on genetic discrimination, equity in matters of data sharing and access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries. She is the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Policy Anlayst at the CGP and the coordinator of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory.

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Djedjiga Kachenoura

Coordinatrice du projet de recherche sur la finance et le climat, Agence française de développement (AFD)
Diplômée d’un double cursus en finance et en statistiques (Paris IV et ENSAE), Djedjiga Kachenoura commence sa carrière dans l’univers de la gestion d’actifs « traditionnels » puis la gestion alternative (HSBC et Allianz) avant de rejoindre la Banque Africaine de Développement en tant que responsable de financement de projets d’infrastructure. Par la suite, Djedjiga rejoint l’Agence Française de Développement où elle est actuellement en charge de la finance climat/finance durable au sein du département « Diagnostics économiques et politiques publiques » : Elle est pilote du dialogue de politiques publiques autour de la transition bas-carbone.

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Dmitry Filippov

PhD candidate in Japanese studies, University of Sheffield

I received a BA in Asian and African Studies from Russia's Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in 2012 and a MA in Japanese Studies from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield in 2015. In 2010-2011, I spent a year at Hosei University in Tokyo as an exchange student. I am currently conducting PhD research on the transformation of Japan's grand strategy towards China and contemporary US-China-Japan trilateral security relations. My articles on Japan's history and foreign policy have been published in Russian and English.

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Dmitry Yumashev

Principal Consultant, Small World Consulting, Lancaster University
Dmitry has a background in applied mathematics and started his career as an aerospace scientist before moving to sustainability and climate change. He has worked on a range of projects with partners from academia, the private sector, the UK Government and the United Nations. At Small World Consulting, Dmitry leads the portfolio of projects on assessing landscape-level carbon emissions and land use change options to aid carbon sequestration. Recent clients include all UK National Parks, all Welsh AONBs, Cotswolds and Cannock Chase National Landscapes, Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness Councils, and private estates.

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Dollie Davis

Associate Dean of Faculty, Minerva University
Dollie Davis specializes in International Political Economy and Economic Development. Prior to joining Minerva, she worked as an International Visiting Fellow at a think tank in Taipei, Taiwan where she executed a paper, discussing the impact of Taiwan’s Non-Governmental Organizations on their International Aid, Healthcare, and Political Systems. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Political Economy from the University of Southern California and her M.A. degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco.

Professor Davis taught courses on Economic Development in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She believes in actively engaging with each student and providing a forum for in-depth discussion about old and new concepts and ideas in every class. Professor Davis teaches the Boom, Bust, and Bubbles: The Free Enterprise System Core Course and the Global Development and Applied Economics Concentration Course.

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Dolores Tirado Bennasar

Profesor titular de Economía Aplicada, Universitat de les Illes Balears

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Dom Wolff-Boenisch

Senior Lecturer, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University

Domenik is senior lecturer at the Curtin University in Perth, coordinating the undergrad and postgrad units of hydrogeology and engineering geology as well as environmental geoscience. He moved to Australia coming from the University of Iceland where from 2007 to 2011 he was the Project Director of the Icelandic partner of the international Carbfix consortium. The Carbfix project is about capture of CO2 from geothermal activities and subsequent sequestration into basaltic terrain (www.carbfix.com). Among his responsibilities there was the set-up and direction of a high P/T lab for the execution of experiments related to water-rock interactions in the presence of CO2. Prior to that position he was a Research Scientist at UC Riverside and UC Merced in the US studying the CO2 drawdown capacity of the Higher Himalayas and the biogeochemistry of uranium. Domenik started his career with a PhD in environmental geochemistry from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1997.

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Domenico Campa

Associate Professor of Accounting, International University of Monaco
I am an Associate professor of Accounting International University of Monaco (IUM). In particular, I joined IUM in 2015 to become the leading permanent faculty in Accounting and to reorganize and restructure all of the accounting-related courses delivered by IUM at both undergraduate and graduate levels. At the moment, he is responsible for the structure and the content of all accounting classes taught at IUM. With other colleagues, I am also the founder and one of the Chairpersons of the "Workshop on Preventing Accounting Scandals: Practices and Practitioners" which aims to explore practices and practitioners behind accounting scandals under different perspectives and to bring out new research questions on this area. The first edition of the workshop took place in IUM in March 2019 and it will now be organized every second year in several host institutions.

I am also very active in research in the areas of earnings manipulation, external auditing, IFRS adoption, corporate governance. My research has been published in recognized international refereed journals including (but not limited to) ABACUS; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting in Europe; Comptabilité Contrôle Audit; European Management Review; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; International Journal of Corporate Governance; International Review of Financial Analysis; International Review of Law and Economics; Managerial Auditing Journal; Research in International Business and Finance.
Moreover, I am visiting professor at Bocconi University where he delivers a module in International Financial Reporting, in a Master of Accounting, Auditing, and Control.

Prior to joining IUM, I was an Assistant Professor in Accounting at Trinity College Dublin, where, for a certain period of time, I also covered the position of Director of the MSc in Finance.
I have also spent three years at University College Cork where he got his Ph.D. while working as a lecturer and delivering accounting classes at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
During the Irish experience, I have been an elected member of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Board as National Representative for Ireland, for the period 2013-2016.
Before moving to Ireland, I also worked as a research and teaching assistant at Bocconi University.
Prior to my academic orientation, I have started my career in the auditing industry in Milan working as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

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Domenico Vicinanza

Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University
Having received his MSc and PhD degrees in physics, Domenico worked as a scientific associate at Cern for seven years. His research there mainly focused on the development of an innovative time-of-flight detector for one of the biggest High-Energy Physics experiments for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The detector design was based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), reaching a sensitivity of 70 picoseconds (the highest ever reached) and its use in a large-scale experiment marked an important milestone for particle physics.

As a music composer and researcher in auditory display, Domenico worked with organisations like Cern and Nasa, creating music from scientific data. He has been involved in the application of grid technologies for science and the arts since the late 1990s, chairing the ASTRA (Ancient instrument Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project for the reconstruction of musical instruments by means of computer models using the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI.eu).

His research interests include data sonification and auditory display, analogue and digital electronics, audio recording and studio techniques, sound synthesis, acoustics and psychoacoustics and distributed computing and network monitoring.

Domenico's research has been featured on several international peer-reviewed magazines (Physics Letters B, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, European Physics Journal) and in interviews for (among the others): Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel, Discover magazine, New Scientist and Scientific American.

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Dominic Boyer

Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University where he served as Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013-2019). His most recent books are Energopolitics (Duke UP, 2019), which analyzes the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico and Hyposubjects (Open Humanities Press, 2021), an experimental collaboration with Timothy Morton concerning politics in the Anthropocene. With Cymene Howe, he made a documentary film about Iceland’s first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change, Not Ok: a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world (2018). In August 2019, together with Icelandic collaborators they installed a memorial to Okjökull’s passing, an event that attracted media attention from around the world and which caused The Economist to create their first-ever obituary for a non-human. During 2021-22 he held an artist residency at The Factory in Djúpavík, Iceland, and was a USC-Berggruen Institute Fellow in Los Angeles working on a project on “Electric Futures.” His next book is titled No More Fossils (U Minnesota Press, 2023) a discussion of fossil fuel fossils and what is to be done about them.

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Dominic Jones

Research Associate, Grattan Institute
Dominic Jones is an Associate at Grattan Institute. He has previously worked as a research assistant in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science where he investigated applications of quantum spin to solar technology.

He has also held teaching roles in the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales. Dominic holds a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours)/Arts double degree majoring in Physics and Politics from the University of New South Wales.

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Dominic Kelly

Adjunct Research Fellow, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
Dominic Kelly is the author of Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia. His writing has appeared in The Age, The Monthly, The Guardian, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Inside Story, Jacobin, The Market Herald and Arena Magazine.

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Dominic Taylor

Acting Chair of Theater, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles
Dominic Taylor is a writer-director and scholar of African American theater whose work has been seen across the country.

He is presently working on a commission from Ford’s Theatre in their Lincoln Legacy Project. In addition, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop have all commissioned Taylor as a writer. His published work includes Wedding Dance and Personal History; both produced at the Kennedy Center by the African Continuum Theatre; Upcity Service(s), included in the anthology Seven More Different Plays, edited by Mac Wellman (Broadway Play Publishing); and Hype Hero, which was developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Conn., produced at Brown University in Fall 2014 and published in 2021 at Playscripts.com. His play "I Wish You Love" premiered at Penumbra Theatre Co. in St. Paul, Minn., and was produced at The Kennedy Center and Hartford Stage in 2012.

Taylor recently directed an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye." He directed Alice Childress’ "Trouble in Mind" in St. Paul. He re-envisioned and directed a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, "The Purple Flower," at Boston’s Factory Theatre and incorporated shadow puppets as his characters. Taylor’s directing projects have been as varied as the opera Fresh Faust at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; The Negroes Burial Ground at The Kitchen in New York City; Destiny and Uppa Creek at Manhattan’s Dixon Place; Ride the Rhythm in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C., and The Wiz at the University of Minnesota’s Rarig Center in Minneapolis. He also reimagined and restaged "The Black Nativity" for Penumbra Theatre and directed "Complicated Fun," a musical about the 1980s music scene in Minneapolis. His next directing project will be a commercial musical, "Selassie," which he will also write.

In the 1990s, Taylor helmed Public Transportation Productions. This film and media company made the award-winning shorts "Counter Puncher" and "In This Corner," and the early web film preview program "It’s Coming." He is currently developing a television project for the studio eOne.

As a scholar, Taylor’s training began under the tutelage of George Houston Bass and his Research to Performance Method (RPM) at Brown’s Rites and Reasons Theatre. In Summer 2014, Taylor was part of the Consortium on African American Aesthetics at Emory University. He was part of the original group of artists and scholars gathered at August Wilson’s “The National Black Theatre Summit: On Golden Pond.” Taylor was part of the cohort that presented a paper on aesthetics. He is also the performance editor of the Massachusetts Review and his essay "Don’t Call African American Theatre Black Theatre: It’s Like Calling a Dog a Cat" was published in September 2019.

He is the former associate artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Co., one of the premiere African-American theaters in the country. There he utilized his unique culturally specific play development process called OKRA.

Previously, Taylor was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has also taught at Bard College, City University in New York, Columbia College of Chicago, Bennington College and Brown University.

Taylor is an alumnus member of New Dramatists. He received his bachelor and MFA degrees from Brown University and is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Dramatists Guild.

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Dominic Zaal

Director, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI), CSIRO
Dominic Zaal is the Director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI) within CSIRO. ASTRI is a Federal Government (ARENA) funded Program for the development and demonstration of Solar Thermal systems and technologies within Australia. As ASTRI Director, Dominic is actively involved in promoting the role that Solar Thermal can play in Australia's future energy mix. In undertaking this role, Dominic works closely with industry and governments on a range of Solar Thermal advocacy and commercial uptake opportunities.

Dominic is also actively involved in the working with companies on renewable heat options for industrial decarbonisation. The focus is on mid to high temperature (150C - 600C) renewable heat technologies (including thermal energy storage) to displace natural gas.

Prior to his work with CSIRO/ASTRI, Dominic worked in the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), where he was responsible for developing strategies for commercial uptake of renewable energy technologies. Dominic also managed an ARENA Program Team responsible for over 100 renewable projects across a diverse range of technologies. As Program Manager, he worked closely with industry and research institutions on the development, demonstration, and commercial deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Before joining ARENA, Dominic worked on Energy Programs within the Department of Industry. This included management of the Australian Government’s Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO) Program, which assisted large Australian companies to identify and implement energy efficiency savings.

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Dominic Ayegba Okoliko

Post-doctoral Fellow: Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University
Dr Dominic Ayegba Okoliko is a researcher specializing in environmental communication, climate change, evaluation, and governance, with a focus on Africa. Based at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University, his work addresses sense-making on environmental challenges in the Global South to promote sustainable development and inform strategic decision-making. He has published extensively on climate change communication and public policy and currently sits on the editorial board of Environmental Communication as an Associate and Review Editor.

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Dominic D. Wells

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
Dr. Dominic D. Wells is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Fire Administration (FIAD) Program. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Kent State University in 2018, a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Bowling Green State University in 2013, and a B.A. in Political Science from Bowling Green State University in 2010. His primary research focuses on labor union politics and policy. Dr. Wells is the author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (Temple University Press). His work has been published in Questions in Politics, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, and Teaching Statistics. Dr. Wells teaches courses in political science, public administration, and fire administration.

For more information about his work, please visit his personal website at dominicdwells.com

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Dominic T. Jordan

Sessional Academic, Edith Cowan University

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Dominick Spracklen

Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
Dominick is Professor of Biopshere-Atmosphere Intearctions at the University of Leeds.

He was awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Advanced Fellow between 2009 and 2014, and in 2016, was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Award. Dominick currently holds a European Research Council Consolidator Fellowship (2018-2023) to study the impacts of tropical deforestation on regional climate.

Dominick is interested in understanding interactions between the biosphere, atmosphere and climate and the way that these interactions are being altered by human activity. In particular he wants to help understand how deforestation impacts air quality and climate.

Dominick’s research group combine models of the Earth’s atmosphere, land surface and climate with observations and satellite remote sensing.

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Dominika Vasilkova

Postdoctoral research associate, University of Liverpool
I'm a postdoctoral researcher working on muon physics on the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and muEDM at PSI. My research focusses on tracking detectors and measuring the intrinsic 'roundness' of muons by searching for an electric dipole moment.

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